*Special Edition* Woodstock 50th Anniversary: August 15-18, 2019

August 18, 2019

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August 15-18 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the watershed events of the turbulent decade of the 1960s — the three days of “Peace, Love and Music” known as Woodstock. It was held at a rural dairy farm in Bethel, New York.

A crowd of up to 200,000 was expected to hear 32 of the top musicians of the time, but estimates of the actual attendance ranged up to a half-million. The size of the crowd created massive traffic jams, and far outstripped the food and sanitation facilities on hand. However, the event was marked by social harmony and is widely considered a watershed in popular music history.

Songs by many of the headliners at Woodstock are still among the playsets of the nation’s 65,000 professional musicians, singers and related workers.

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Key Stats:

From QuickFacts: statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.

Note: The map above shows the three counties, outlined in red, in New York State that are associated with the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The black dot is the approximate location of Bethel in Sullivan County, New York.

From American FactFinder — Community Facts about the geographies associated with the Woodstock Festival in 1969:

Note: The table above is cropped to highlight the three counties in New York State associated with the 1969 Woodstock Festival: Orange, Sullivan and Ulster. Their respective populations in 1970 were 221,657, 52,580 and 141,241.